Fixing the future: Introducing the event line up!

You too can fix the future

Future curious? On 13 March a future-‘supergroup’ will gather for the first time in Barcelona. Brought to you by Atlas of the Future and Ara, ‘Fixing the future: adventures in a better tomorrow’ will explore the talent solving the audacious goals of our planet with radical methods. Join us at the CCCB to meet the innovators fixing our food, economy and energy, and tackling climate change and water scarcity.

At the Atlas we love asking changemakers who speak ‘human’ to help everyone understand the super-cool stuff making the world better. Can we feed 10 billion people and not destroy the planet? Can we have water and energy for all? Are cities the farms of the future? How can communities control their own energy supply? Can cattle help win the battle against climate change? Is transparency vital for sustainability?

► Answering these questions, and more, are these 10 award-winning groundbreakers:

“We don’t need to fly things across the planet. We can create perishable crops all year round, even in the northern hemisphere where it’s cold.”

Two microgreen-fingered tunnel visionaries are proving that plants don’t need sunlight – in London’s disused bomb shelters. Richard Ballard will take us on a virtual tour of the subterraneanGrowing Underground, the groundbreaking farm that demonstrates how urban agriculture can help tackle food scarcity.

“The goal of the 21st century economy should be to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet.”

In today’s world we are addicted to growth. That’s why Kate Raworth wants to radically reframe the way we look at economics, to help us get savvy with systems.

With her internationally-acclaimed book ‘Doughnut Economics’, the author proposes seven ways to reboot today’s business and society using nature – and the doughnut – as the most powerful metaphors we can learn from.

“If you want to be Che Guevara, stop walking around pointing to what’s bad. Want to be a true revolutionary? Rip up the paving slabs, plant a garden and cover your roof in solar panels.”

Agamemnon Otero MBE tackles fuel poverty with renewable power, while showing the true democratic involvement of people in the energy system.

In the UK, the number of small-scale energy systems has jumped from a few thousand to over half a million – a change fuelled by this smiling Uruguayan-born artist and his fellow coooperators at the not-for-profit energy development company Repowering London. He’s currently turning his attention to tidal power from the River Thames and a city-wide network of Energy Gardens.

“WHAT you do can change the world for a moment. WHY you do it can change the world forever.”

Discover what the future of water, electricity production and connectivity looks like with the world’s largest solar powered supercomputer.

Primarily concerned with helping communities in Africa by serving as many needs as possible with a single machine without contributing to environmental damage, Marco A. Attisani, the founder of Watly, wants to offer a hat trick of the three pillars of modern civilisation.

“The future is a real, active choice. We cannot simply close our eyes in resignation. Instead we should be blinking at the brightness of the possibilities in front of us, and making the best of them happen.”

As the co-founder of leading sustainability communications agency Futerra, the charismatic Ed Gillespie has mastered the art of gentle ‘insultancy’ (being strategically rude) to provoke clients. Bringing much-needed climate optimism to business, the celebrated slow traveller will explore how disruptive innovation creates enormous transformative potential in markets and opportunities.

“Blockchain is getting a lot of hype, but essentially it’s a fancy database. If radical transparency becomes the norm, then we’ll really be moving towards a fantastic new phase for sustainability.”

Considered one of the UK’s ‘coolest female startup founders’ by Business Insider, Jessi Baker is the woman behind Provenance – a software company that uses novel technologies like the blockchain to help businesses share information about the people, places and materials involved in their products.

“Nature is incredibly forgiving. When we get out of her way, stop fighting her, and listen to what she has been screaming at us, her capacity to heal will never cease to amaze and inspire me.”

Methane-burping cows are often the scape-goats (or scape-cows) for climate change.

By giving the animals a more holistic hook, Tony Lovell, co-founder of SLM Australia Livestock Fund, has raised a whopping $100 million to help regenerate billions of hectares of damaged grasslands. The cowboy against climate change uses soil management, biodiversity restoration and grazing techniques.

“Architecture used to be considered a ‘machine for living in’ that required consuming the environment’s resources. In the Information Age – and following advances of cybernetics, material science and biology – architecture is becoming ‘alive’ with integrated intelligence that’s in sync with its environment and users’ needs.”

Urban technologist Areti Markopoulou is a Greek architect working on the intersection between architecture and digital technologies.

The Academic Director of IAAC Barcelona is also co-editor of global network Urban Next and her revolutionary work on urban technologies has been exhibited around the world.

I would love to participate to the event and just get my day free for that, but I am seeing now there is no more ticket to sale 🙁
I am very interesting by all these topics to change the way our businesses is evolving and impulse innovation…
Is there any way to participate in some moment of the day??
Gracias de antemano,
Régis Badia

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